Last Chance Motel is now on VOD everywhere, and it brings together Scream Queen icons such as Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Danielle Harris (Halloween 4), Monica Keena (Freddy vs. Jason), and Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween). Taylor-Compton and Harris have teamed up to serve as the directors and writers.

Last Chance Motel follows Taylor-Compton and Harris as a newlywed couple whose wedding is turned upside down when a family that runs the venue has other ideas.

Heather Langenkamp is known for playing the final girl, Nancy, in A Nightmare on Elm Street. In Last Chance Motel, she is the antagonist Bobbi Love, a character that is the complete opposite of Nancy.

“I love being the good guy, I won’t lie,” Langenkamp tells Nerd Reactor. “It’s so special that I was able to play Nancy, who has so many incredibly strong qualities for women and men alike and teenagers as a group. But as you become more mature in this industry, you don’t really have the opportunity to play those characters anymore, and you just need to face reality. So you need to take on characters that are a 180 degrees different to show people that you have range and to show people that you’ll take on any character that comes your way.”

Taylor-Compton and Harris wanted to make Last Chance Motel specifically for hardcore horror fans, embracing the film’s blood, gore, and practical effects.

“We wanted to do this movie and make it gory,” Taylor Compton said. “Because we were inspired by some of the movies coming up, like Terrifier, and everybody speaking, ‘How much fun they had doing it.’ I think Danielle and I just wanted to do something as equally as fun because we’ve done these; I wouldn’t say that they’re tame movies, but there’s a level. So we’re like, ‘Well, let’s ****ing be bloody. Let’s do it.'”

Monica Keena also has a history with the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, having played the final girl Lori Campbell in Freddy vs. Jason. In Last Chance Motel, she plays Sugar, who is in a relationship with Cuervo, played by Zachary Roozen. She mentioned one of her favorite scenes, which was the film’s pool scene.

“And I have to say that the pool scene, I felt the energy that night,” Keena said. There was a lot of action going on and gore and blood and all this stuff. But there’s a really nice collaborative energy leading up to that.”

Roozen, who can also be seen in the horror comedy Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, talks about how fun the set is, especially with its practical effects.

“It’s fun every day looking at the call sheet and seeing at the bottom all of the things that’ll be used when,” he said. “It starts becoming like an encyclopedia of like tubing and all this different stuff. And you’re like, ‘Wow, this is going to be intense.’ But I think there’s something that’s so true. I’ve always loved horror in general, but I’ve always loved being on sets where everyone gathers around during iconic moments like that or things that you know are coming up. And I just love the collective nature of it.”

About Last Chance Motel

Synopsis: Their dream wedding in the Nevada desert turns into a fight for survival when the newlyweds discover the isolated motel hosting their big day is run by a relentless, bloodthirsty family with dark secrets of their own.

The film is directed by Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor-Compton and written by Harris, Taylor-Compton, and Brandon Slagle.

The film also stars Shane West, Sierra McCormick, and Robert Allen Mukes.